Pupil Accounting

Tooele County School District does not keep copies of high school diplomas. We do, however, keep a transcript copy which serves as proof of graduation.

For a copy of your high school transcript, please reach out to your schools counseling office via their school website and Counseling. 

Homeschool Notification Form

Utah Homeschool Law Update – Effective May 7, 2025

The Utah Legislature passed House Bill 209 (2025 General Session), which updates the requirements for parents choosing to homeschool their children. Key changes include:

• Notification Requirement: Parents must submit a one-time notification (TCSD Homeschool Notification Form) to their local school board when they begin homeschooling. This replaces the previous affidavit requirement.
• Affidavit Removal: Parents no longer need to submit an affidavit if homeschooling begins at the start of the academic year.
• Background History: The law removes the requirement for parents to attest to their criminal background history.
• District Procedures: Local school boards must acknowledge receipt of the notification within 30 days and maintain a record of it.
• Liability Clarification: Once a student is unenrolled for homeschooling, the school district is no longer liable for the student’s education or services.
• Parental Rights: Parents retain full control over curriculum, instruction methods, and evaluation. School districts cannot require records, credentials, or testing for homeschool students.

Read the full bill here: Utah HB 209 – Homeschool Amendments (Enrolled Version) 

To excuse a student on the app:

• When parents sign up for the Skyward app, they will select a four-digit code.
• Put in your four-digit code and continue to the app
• Select the “hamburger button” (the triple bar or trigram symbol) on the top right.
• From here you have two options, the first option (the message tab), will show you through the notification when your student was marked absent and what you need to excuse.   With the attendance tab you simply submit a request.   

 

• 1. Message Tab
• Attendance Notification
• View
• Add Absent Request
• OR
• 2. Attendance
• Add Absent Request

 

• Either of these two options will open a pop-up. 
• Complete the following information:
• Student
• Date/Time
• Reason
• Comment (optional – but very helpful, especially if you want to “excuse 2^nd hour”)
• If you have more than one student and want this attendance request submitted for another student (maybe your family will be attending a funeral and all students need to be excused) then you can “Copy” the request and select additional students.
• Submit

 

To submit a request from the website:

• Tooeleschools.org
• Click on the Families tab across the top
• Click on Skyward for Parents
• Log in
• On the top right click student  (if you only have one student you will just see your student’s name)
• In the drop-down menu select the student’s name you need to excuse
• Select Attendance in the menu on the left hand side
• Click on the hyperlink at the top of the page “Absence Request.”
• An “Add Request” pop-up block will open
• Complete the following blocks:
• Date/Time
• Reason
• Comment (optional, but once again, very helpful)
• Save
• Once you have “Saved” you will receive an email notification that an absence request has been submitted.
• After the request has been processed, parents will receive a notification in Skyward
• “(Student’s name) Absence Request has been (approved or denied)
• The Absence Request submitted for (student) on (date) has been (approved or denied). 
• If a request is denied, a reason must be provided.  It will then say “Go to your Absence Requests for further information.”

Logging In

Click on Families in the top ribbon, then Skyward for Parents.

Your login info should have been sent from the district this summer, or given to you when you registered your child for this school year.

●    Usually your username is firstname.lastname, but occasionally there are other characters involved
●    A default password was sent initially to your personal email which you can change within your account.

On the top right hand corner click on “My Account”. 
In this section you can decide what notifications you want Skyward to send you, how to receive those notifications, and how often to get those!

1.    Daily Attendance Notifications can be emailed, posted to your Family Access Wall (online) or both.
2.    Progress Report Emails will send as often as you set it. Teachers should be updating grades once per week, so we recommend either Weekly or Monthly.
3.    Food Service Notifications let you know when the lunch balance is under $0. These can be sent as an email, posted to the Family Access Wall, or both.

Using the Calendar in Skyward

Click on Calendar on the left menu. 
The Skyward Calendar can show parents:

●    Holidays & term dates
○    Shown in blue
●    Assignments due on specific dates
○    Shown in Green
●    Grades earned on assignments
○    In ( ) behind the assignment title
●    Missing assignments
○    Outlined in red
●    Absences and tardies
○    Also shown in blue

Checking Grades

Click on Gradebook on the left menu.
In the Gradebook tab, you can see a summary of your child’s grades & citizenship for the in app 
periods/classes for the current term, or all year, depending on your display options. 
Posted grades are shown in black font. Grades in progress are shown in blue.
Click on one of the blue grades to see a detailed view of what assignments and grades create the overall grade. 

Clicking on any specific grade will bring you to a new screen: Quarter Progress Report in that class.
Here you can see the individual assignments’ scores.  If you see a small text bubble, that indicates there are comments the teacher has made on an assignment. Click on the bubble to view the comment.
The pie chart at the top shows you how much each assignment category is weighted and how much it impacts the final grade. 

Checking Attendance

Click on Attendance in the left menu. 
In the Attendance tab, you can see details for any recent absences, as well as charts on the right showing current term absence totals, and totals for the whole year.

Messages with Teachers

On the Home page, you can see previews of messages that teachers have sent to you!  
To see the whole message click the [Show+] below the message. 
At this time, messages sent here to NOT go to a teacher’s email inbox and Skyward does not send notifications of new messages.
We recommend sending emails directly to your child’s teacher at this time!

Clicking reply will send a message back to the teacher, but ONLY in Skyward and the teacher may not see your message since Skyward does not yet send notifications of new messages. 
Clicking “Post a message” will allow you send a message to one, several, or all your child’s teachers, as well as counselor. However, the teacher may not see your message since Skyward does not yet send notifications of new messages. 

Lunch Balances

Click on Food Service on the left menu. 
In the Food Service tab, you can see your child’s lunch balance, recent payments made to the lunch account, as well as purchases your child may have made at the school. You can set a purchase limit for “a la carte” options (secondary only) and can see your child’s lunch number. 
Click “Make a Payment” to add money to your child’s lunch account. 

The Skyward App

Skyward has an app to makes monitoring your child’s educational needs and progress even easier! 
Just go to your phone’s app store and search for Skyward! Look for the icon shown to the left. 

Many features are available and easily managed using the app. Notifications make it super easy to stay up-to-date on your child’s progress
Most features are easily accessible. 
However, assignment comments and lunch account payments are not available, and the calendar is not nearly as functional on the app. 

Using the App

The homepage shows the default widgets “Lunch menu”, “Class Grades” and  “Message Center”.

To navigate through the app, click on the three lines on the upper right corner.

Navigating the App- Recent Menu

The recent places you have visited in the app is the first menu shown, indicated by the clock icon.

Navigating the App- Full Menu

Click the list to see the full menu of all options within the app.
Click on any of those options to see relevant information about your student.
Not every school uses all the features, so some of these may not have a lot of information to see.

Navigating the App- Account Settings

Click the list to see the full menu of all options within the app.
Change your password under 
“Account Information” 
Select your widgets and push notifications under “User Preferences."

Getting More Help

For account issues, like logging in and access, call the Help Desk: (435)884-7799 
For help using the app, contact your school. 
If they cannot answer your question, call the Help Desk and ask for parent help in Skyward.
For help in Spanish, contact our Student Services, Multi-Language Specialists: (435)833-8778.

 

Schedule a Conference

1. Go to www.tooeleschools.org

2. Log into your Parent Skyward account by clicking the down arrow next to the word Skyward in to top right-hand corner of the Homepage. Then select “Skyward for Parents.”

 

3. Once logged in, you automatically be taken to your Skyward dashboard.

4a. If you only have one student in Tooele County School District, click on “Conferences” close to the bottom of the navigation bar.

4b. If you have more than one student in Tooele County School District select “All Students” found underneath the words Family Access at the top-right of the Page. Then click on “Conferences” close to the bottom of the navigation bar.

5. Once you click on “Conferences” you will see a list of your students and the school they are attending. For each student, you will click on their “All Conferences” button.

 

6. A menu for that specific student will expand, showing you the teachers that set up their Skyward scheduler correctly. For each teacher, click on “Select a Time” under Status.

7. A pop-up window will open and various time slots will appear. Find a time that works for you. To the left of that time slot, click Select.”

 

8. A new pop-up window will open that has specifics for that meeting. Where the “1” button appears on the graphic below, make sure your email address is correct. If everything looks correct, click “Save.”

 

9. You can now see that you have that time-slot locked. *Repeat this process for the said students remaining teachers and then for any additional children you have at the same school or different schools.

 

10. You will receive a confirmation email as well as a reminder email five days before the scheduled conference and another two days before the scheduled conference.

If you need additional help, please reach out to the following individuals. Thank you!

➥ Tamara Cummings at tcummings@tooeleschools.org

➥ Lezlee Pollmann at lpollmann@tooeleschools.org